title: Strategic continuity planning: the first critical step.
abstract: Many companies (and business continuity professionals) believe a company needs a comprehensive, all-inclusive business continuity plan. Often they reach this conclusion after other companies or potential clients have requested to see their business continuity plan as a precondition of doing business. Companies without 'a plan' are then tempted to go out and hire a business continuity person and tell them to 'Create a plan!' This makes perfect sense to the executive team, but this approach will probably not work in a real event. This paper addresses the shortcomings of producing tactical documentation and calling it 'The Plan', and discusses ways to engage management in the development of a corporate strategy to be used during and after an event.
authors.forename: Jack
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003142:Communication; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D012308:Risk Management / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: executive business impact analysis; executive involvement; recovery planning; resiliency; strategic planning